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by Ira Wallace of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange author of The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast December is a good time to review your last year's garden and plan for the coming season. Pay special attention to which weeds grew in different areas of your garden. They are good indicators of [...]

Reviewed by Pam Dawling, author of Sustainable Market Farming and weekly blogger on her website www.sustainablemarketfarming.com. by Amy Stewart, Algonquin Books, 2004 The Earth Moved is an easy read, fascinating, amusing, and informative by turn. Its cover looks like an aged Victorian pamphlet, and leads right into a brief history of Charles Darwin’s studies with [...]

Beekeeping for Beginners The Small Farm Outreach Program at VSU invites you to join us for a 5-Session Workshop Series Hopewell United Methodist Church 4585 Dry Fork Rd • Dry Fork, VA ALL SESSIONS: 6:00 pm -8:00 pm REGISTER ONLINE: https://goo.gl/forms/8LhC2wqnDb9MQdKg1 TO ATTEND ALL 5 SESSIONS In this five-part series designed for those interested in starting [...]

By Mark Schonebeck The VABF Board of Directors is undertaking to build a policy team to better cover all aspects of sustainable agriculture policy work at the federal as well as state and local levels. Specific needs include: Team members with the skills and the desire to do grassroots organizing and advocacy throughout the VABF [...]

By Mark Schonebeck Mark Schonbeck has worked over 30 years as a researcher, consultant, and educator in sustainable and organic agriculture. He has participated in on-farm research into mulching, cover crops, minimum tillage, and nutrient management for organic vegetables. Mark offers individual consulting in soil test interpretation and soil, crop, and weed management for sustainable farmers. [...]

By Ira Wallace of Southern Exposure Seed Exchange and author of The Timber Press Guide to Vegetable Gardening in the Southeast Make sure all your frost-tender crops have been harvested and your hardy greens are mulched and covered with floating row cover. We like to use our Reemay® blanket or other heavy duty spun polyester [...]

Reviewed by Pam Dawling, author of Sustainable Market Farming and weekly blogger on her website www.sustainablemarketfarming.com. When I read Ben Hartman's first book, The Lean Farm, and wrote my review in October 2015, I was on the path from curious and enthusiastic sceptic to enthusiastic-fan-with-reservations. I rejoiced in the ideas of reducing wasted effort, being [...]

by Kathy O'Hara Does this happen to you? You’ve got a crowd staying over for the holidays, everyone is starting to converge on the kitchen the morning after the big meal, and you want to feed the masses while enjoying their company and your own sanity. Of course, you can do the bagel thing, or [...]